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Re: Google to Add Social Feature to Gmail

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Post by blhack » Mon, Feb 08, 2010, 11:41 PM UTC

axod wrote: post #9

>> "[To continue reading subscribe now]" Yeah how about [To continue having a viable business model stop pissing off visitors with stupid pay/subscribe walls]. Sorry, offtopic I know. It just irritates the hell out of me.

How do you suggest places like the Wall Street Journal continue to fund themselves?

Re: Google to Add Social Feature to Gmail

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Post by Groxx » Mon, Feb 08, 2010, 11:42 PM UTC

Is it appropriate to flag a link that requires you to access a paid service to be of any use? I mean, you can argue it's a "spam" link, as if a WSJ cohort posted it, they may be hoping for subscriptions.

I'm eyeballing the link pretty intensely right now...

Re: Google to Add Social Feature to Gmail

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Post by Groxx » Mon, Feb 08, 2010, 11:51 PM UTC

blhack wrote: post #11

axod wrote: post #9

>> "[To continue reading subscribe now]" Yeah how about [To continue having a viable business model stop pissing off visitors with stupid pay/subscribe walls]. Sorry, offtopic I know. It just irritates the hell out of me.

How do you suggest places like the Wall Street Journal continue to fund themselves?

If it's exclusively a paid service, then why do they have ads? I can't tell for certain if they do in the paid version, but looking at the sample page on the "subscribe now" link, there appears to be an ad for something like a smartphone.

And plenty of other newspaper sites give content for free, and only lock older articles. They seem to be doing well enough with that model.

edit: and then why allow Googlers to access everything for free?

Re: Google to Add Social Feature to Gmail

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Post by bugs » Mon, Feb 08, 2010, 11:52 PM UTC

Groxx wrote: post #12

Is it appropriate to flag a link that requires you to access a paid service to be of any use? I mean, you can argue it's a "spam" link, as if a WSJ cohort posted it, they may be hoping for subscriptions. I'm eyeballing the link pretty intensely right now...

The submitter probably went to the link from google and didn't realize it was a pay wall.

Go ahead and try it http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#3...

It is under the nytimes article at this time

Re: Google to Add Social Feature to Gmail

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Feb 08, 2010, 11:54 PM UTC

bugs wrote: post #14

Groxx wrote: post #12

Is it appropriate to flag a link that requires you to access a paid service to be of any use? I mean, you can argue it's a "spam" link, as if a WSJ cohort posted it, they may be hoping for subscriptions. I'm eyeballing the link pretty intensely right now...

The submitter probably went to the link from google and didn't realize it was a pay wall. Go ahead and try it http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#3... It is under the nytimes article at this time

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Re: Google to Add Social Feature to Gmail

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Feb 08, 2010, 11:56 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #15

bugs wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The submitter probably went to the link from google and didn't realize it was a pay wall. Go ahead and try it http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#3... It is under the nytimes article at this time

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Re: Google to Add Social Feature to Gmail

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Post by Groxx » Mon, Feb 08, 2010, 11:56 PM UTC

bugs wrote: post #14

Groxx wrote: post #12

Is it appropriate to flag a link that requires you to access a paid service to be of any use? I mean, you can argue it's a "spam" link, as if a WSJ cohort posted it, they may be hoping for subscriptions. I'm eyeballing the link pretty intensely right now...

The submitter probably went to the link from google and didn't realize it was a pay wall. Go ahead and try it http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#3... It is under the nytimes article at this time

Weird. Still likely shouldn't be a link here, though I can grant it's more likely a mistake.

Re: Google to Add Social Feature to Gmail

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Post by frossie » Tue, Feb 09, 2010, 12:02 AM UTC

orblivion wrote: post #6

I wish they'd add spelling correction to their search.

I wish the search would search contacts...

(Yes I know I can go to the contacts widget and do a completely different search in there - not the same)

Re: Google to Add Social Feature to Gmail

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Post by daveying99 » Tue, Feb 09, 2010, 12:25 AM UTC

aresant wrote: post #4

Amazing what the power of Google's brand can do for press coverage on feature releases. Yahoo Mail implemented this feature maybe a year ago and has the LARGER user base but got very little coverage. http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/The-Email-Battles-Gmail-...

The media is also more likely to report on a pretzel choking incident when it concerns a person of interest like the president rather than a less interesting subject like me...

Re: Google to Add Social Feature to Gmail

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Post by mawhidby » Tue, Feb 09, 2010, 12:28 AM UTC

cracell wrote: post #10

Dear Google, Please stop adding things to my Gmail that make it a worst email reader. If you want to make some sort of social center, please create a new tool that ties into Gmail. Gmail was a really great product 2 years ago, but you keep adding dumb shit to it and making it less stable. Please stop. Thank you.

The additional functionality is okay with me, so long as Google keeps it in the Labs section.

Just out of curiosity, what is being added that is making gmail less stable for you? In the years I have been using gmail, I've never had any issues, and I currently have 17 labs features running (FWIW).